FM! 1600g!?!!

Congratulations on hitting your target. Hope you recover well. Well done!

got it setup to deliver some news feed when it opens i guess? just go to the settings and have it reload the last stuff you had open perhaps?

Sounds shit /s

do you know how wide your plate is or not? if you do, find one edge, subtract 1/2 the diameter of your edge finder, zero your DRO and then move to the centre. your method involves you knowing what the backlash is on your movement axis and taking that in to account.

Most of us probably buy from Amazon. You’d have to have your head in the sand to think they’re a good employer. Therefore most of us are complicit. I am.

Knock the f’ing thing down and build a proper extension would be my choice. Probably not what you want to hear.

Oh – and I found they creak when you’ve got a bike on there.

Used whispbars on my Mk7. They were left on the car for a few years, car left outside. The seals have leaked a bit and continue to. This ‘may’ simply be because the seals have stiffened up a bit. I keep meaning to put something on them to see if I can restore some flex. The pads that go under the feet of the bars degraded in the UV (I presume) and I have needed to replace those for about 4 years. Clearly I haven’t been arsed and on the occasional ride I can’t get to from home the bike just gets lobbed in the back.

The later mt style magura discs are 2.3mm thick. ‘regular’ rotors tend to be 1.8mm thick but magura state 1.8mm as the wear limit. So you might need to beat thickness in mind depending upon your manufacturer’s stipulation. Beyond that for me it’s whatever brand name I recognise that’s cheapish. Have used Clarke’s, avids, whatever.

:-))) sorry mate! When we were at the gig my partner spotted what looked like a family outing but from your description it wasn’t you. All the best!

blimey. good luck old chap. i never caught up with you over last week’s fun. are your boys rolling with short dark hair, and you with rather less hair and a large beard, wok smuggling outline, by any chance? :-)

I did see this the other day, and it’s a nice looking bike, but by crikey is that frame expensive!

Once you fitted the cranks you can take the tension cap off

Not IME, having once gone to do exactly that when taking cranks off. I do agree that you can take a stem top cap off when the stem bolts are tight, as I have also done that. :-)

is there no end to your perversion? :-) :-) :-)

you’ll be trebucheting the missus over the top of that bastard!

the issue is that if the gig doesn’t go ahead the additional fees are forfeit. i’m curious as to why the sale of goods act doesn’t apply?

TBF they’ve got a fantastic business model. /s

It’s gouging, and if I’ve made a purchase of an item I expect the vendor to supply the item described or refund my money. All of it. I don’t have a problem with them making a living, but them expecting me to underwrite the cost of them doing business is pretty ripe. In what world is the vagaries of their business the responsibility of their customers? Touts and bots? The Glastonbury festival appears to have been able to navigate those problems.

I believe the aftermarket alloy pre-tensioner bolts do serve a purpose. I think they help the axle maintain it’s shape and make it easier to achieve even tension on the pinch bolts. They do look a bit better but I just have the Hong Kong Fuey ones from eBay that cost about 3 quid.

TBF to FE it’s unlikely to be them doing the harvesting. FWIU it’s mostly contractors these days. Doesn’t excuse leaving crap lying about of course.

I have a pixel 8. It sometimes hangs for a second or two when you’re trying to do something. It’s ‘ok’, and the stated length of support is attractive. The Poco f series phones I have had are frankly a better user experience IME.

another lol @ Cougar :-)

did you enjoy the gig Ambrose? we thought orbital good, and i didn’t recognise some of what they were playing – new album? leftfield were cracking.

the real robbery was going on behind the bar. 2 pints and a large glass of red was 32 flipping quid!!

Good article.

IMV this appears to be very much ‘more of the same’, though an actual national policy is welcome this she’s seem to reflect what’s been happening in our area for about the past 15 years.

The majority of people who when asked what they’ve been doing might respond ‘mountain biking’ are usually riding lower grade trails. You’re not riding advanced stuff straight off the bat, some people will never progress that far and that’s the reason off piste stuff can exist. It doesn’t need to be built to the same standards in terms of surfacing as the official stuff does because it doesn’t get the same level of use.

Chris’ point above illustrates the importance of relationships. If the individuals on the ground are open to it then getting to know them and building trust can accomplish an awful lot more than people might think. It opens up opportunities for things like borrowing enough rakes and mattocs for 5 of you to restore a damaged bit of trail in a few hours on a Saturday morning, or for a few trailer’s worth of 45 to dust appearing just where it’s needed.

As an organisation I understand why the forestry wants to deal with sanctioned volunteer groups but a few committed individuals can make a massive difference to a riding spot, and have been doing so for years.

Mountain bikers don’t seem to lend themselves to getting organised much beyond turning up for a race for some reason. I don’t think this is a bug, it’s a feature.

our work (NHS) COVID policy

JFC.

Me and the Mrs off to see orbital and leftfield tonight. :-)

it takes some effort to look after beer and serve it well, including cleaning glasses properly and storing them effectively. stacking still warm/wet glasses is horrible for the taste of a pint irrespective of how the beer is kept or how clean the lines are. some pubs GAS, some don’t. i try not to drink in the former. at least we’re not paying the **** tax that lager attracts.

What wordnumb said. Apply a drop to each roller on the bottom run of the chain, when done do a few circuits of back pedal to move it around, then wipe off the excess. I use finishline green once a week. I remove gunk from the jockey wheels and the front ring once a week prior to oiling. I don’t have dirty cassettes.

There’s a size guide on the spada site. ;-)

I had a lengthy chat with a time served BMW tech I know a couple of months ago. The top techs are on low 40s, when they can get them. No mention of commission, either for the techs or the service desk. No more open workshops for ‘homers’ at the weekend. They can’t get staff and experienced guys are leaving to go to independents or set up their own. More recently they’ve had to offer above the salaries of existing staff which as you might imagine has gone down like a shit sandwich

You think it’s good value? You (we!) are paying about 200 quid for a stamp in the book, a ‘clean’ a blind man would do better, and about 40 quid’s worth of consumables. ?

Don’t get me started on the markup on oil…

Those showrooms aren’t paying for themselves!

(I know, I know, if you don’t like it. etc)

Anyway I’m glad the OP got his car fixed.

Chromecast has been ‘ok’ for me. Cheap enough that the odd hassle is tolerable. BBC sounds I think always pauses for about 10-15s after playing for about a minute or so. Just long enough to make you think it’s stopped playing when it first does it. Volumes seem to get cocked up if I’m playing from my phone or if my partner plays from hers. But generally it’s ok. You’re relying on 3 or 4 different systems all playing nicely together, and like a lot of home automation stuff it mostly works until it doesn’t.

Hmm. Fixed price servicing right up until the point things go wrong eh? Why am I not surprised? (VW owner)

Huh. Ta.

Insulate your walls with 120mm of wood fiber and you’ll reduce the heat loss through them by 60%+ assuming you have an insulated cavity wall already.

curious about this. have shied away from cavity wall insulation due to stories about damp etc. can you elaborate Ed?

Last time I looked we weren’t using coal for transportation other than a few bits of nostalgic railway. Most oil consumption is transport related. I think it’s generally accepted that home energy use is what’s being discussed.

Nuclear definitely has a role so long as a government wants to pull it’s thumb out of its arse and get on with it. Battery storage, wind and solar ftw. If uncle Bill can get it together traveling wave reactors could be a big part of the solution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPowerhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

it’s patently obviously bollocks

No, it’s an opinion. You appear to be confusing your opinion with objective fact

Fr255 here. I’ll leave the amoled and keep the battery life thanks. :)

^ Beggars belief

Check strands from the outer’s ends haven’t dug in to the caps if they’re plastic – this will introduce friction. Check the mech hanger alignment.

Ta bunk. I’ll take another look at that…

Thread hijack. I was running virgin media router in modem mode hooked to a decent router and that gave great performance, as it did later with a Plusnet connection, both over copper. Fast forward 6 or 7 years and I ‘upgraded’ to fibre. Configured the ISP’s router again to behave as a modem but performance is much poorer, in terms of signal strength and connection reliability, despite turning off the ISP router’s WiFi. Speed tests report great results but WiFi connections are flaky as hell. Any ideas?